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Description A Louis XVI carved giltwood demi-lune console table
circa 1780
the figured red marble top above a guilloche frieze on leaf carved stop-fluted tapering legs with collars and a moulded stretcher centred?with an urn
85.5cm. high, 89cm. wide, 44cm. deep.
Condition Report Marble appears original and good wiith minor chips to extremities. The support with losses to gilt-surface, nice quality. There are losses to carved detail as to be expected. One small break to the laurel leaf garland flanking the vase on the right handside.
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Literature Arthur T. Bolton, ‘Mersham le Hatch’,?
Country Life, 26 March 1921, photographed in the hall, p. 370;
H. Avray Tipping, ‘Mersham le Hatch’,?
Country Life, 8 August 1925, in situ, p. 219;
Inventory, 1926, p. 28,?in the south room;
Avray Tipping,
English Homes, Late Georgian, 1760-1820, London, 1926, in situ, p. 124;
Christopher Hussey
, English Country Houses, Mid Georgian 1760-1800, London, 1984, in situ, p.100.